Frames of Reference

• aerospace
  • Hazard in Aerobatics: Effects of G-Forces on Pilots, Federal Aviation Administration, Advisory Circular 91-61, 28 February 1984
  • This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury; Lloyd S. Swenson Jr., James M. Grimwood, Charles C. Alexander, NASA
    • Zero G
    • Multiple G
  • Space Shuttle Reference Page, NASA
    • Accelerometer Assemblies
    • G-meter
• Amusement parks
  • Amusement Ride Safety: G-Forces. International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA).
  • Committee F24 on Amusement Rides and Devices. American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
  • Institue for Centrifugal Research (ICR). Gravity is a mistake. We work hard to correct it.
• apparent weightlessness
  • Zero Gravity Corporation, Commercial version of the "Vomit Comet"
  • Zero Gravity Experiments, The original KC-135 "Vomit Comet"
• Drop towers
  • Microgravity Science Division at NASA Glenn Research Center
    • Zero Gravity Research Facility
    • 2.2 Second Drop Tower
• Human centrifuge
  • Naval Air Warfare Center/Naval Air Development Center. Home of the first human centrifuge.
• Video on demand
  • Frames of Reference (1960). A classic of 20th century physics education from the Physical Sciences Study Committee (PSSC). Narrated by by University of Toronto professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume.
    • Internet Archive
    • part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Posted by RusAlmighty on YouTube
  • Space Station Reboost, YouTube. Astronaut Jeff Williams demonstrates the apparent acceleration experienced inside the cabin during a planned International Space Station reboost on 24 January 2010. The ISS is reboosted periodically to maintain its orbit, and to prepare for visiting spacecraft, such as the space shuttle and Progress vehicles.
  • Dropping Drops team at Drop Your Thesis! European Space Agency (2015). Friday was the last day of the Drop Your Thesis! 2015 campaign at the ZARM Drop Tower in Bremen. After two weeks of intensive work and a few night shifts, the Dropping Drops team from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg completed their campaign. They created some of the biggest spherical water bubbles on Earth and studied the imbibition process on a porous medium.

Frames of Reference

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